melt
/icons/point.icon 消える
disappear: 視界や思考から消えてなくなること
vanish: 突然, 不可解にも跡形もなく消えること
fade: 物事･表情･音などがかすむように次第に消えてゆくこと
die out: 動植物･種が絶滅して消えたり, 習慣･伝統などが廃れてなくなること
clear: 視界をさえぎっていた煙･霧などが消えてなくなること
dissolve: 〘ややかたく･文〙 で, ある理由で感情･表情･消えにくいものなどが消えること
melt: 〘文〙 で, 感情･人･物などが次第に消えてなくなる, いなくなること
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verb
1. make or become liquefied by heat:
〈人･熱などが〉〈固体〉を溶かす
e.g. with object : the hot metal melted the wax
e.g. (as adjective melted) : asparagus with melted butter
(熱などで)〈固体が〉溶ける(→ thaw)
e.g. no object : place under the broiler until the cheese has melted
e.g. the icebergs were melting away.
with object (melt something down) melt something, especially a metal article, so that the material it is made of can be used again:
melt down: (再利用するために)A〈金属など〉を(熱して)溶かす.
e.g. beautiful objects are being melted down and sold for scrap.
dissolve in liquid:
e.g. add a cup of sugar and boil until the sugar melts.
2. make or become more tender or loving:
〈気持ち･人など〉を和らげる, 優しくする
e.g. with object : Richard gave her a smile that melted her heart
〈気持ち･人などが〉和らぐ, 優しくなる.
e.g. no object : she was so beautiful that I melted.
3. no object, with adverbial leave or disappear unobtrusively:
｟文｠ ; 〖～＋副詞〗 〈感情などが〉(次第に)消えてなくなる(away); 〈人･物が〉 【暗闇･群衆の中に】(そっと)いなく, 見えなくなる(away) «into»
e.g. the compromise was accepted and the opposition melted away
e.g. the figure melted into thin air.
(melt into) change or merge imperceptibly into (another form or state):
〈音･色･感情などが〉 【ほかのものに】(次第に)溶け込む, 変化する «into»
e.g. the cheers melted into gasps of admiration.
noun
an act of melting:
雪解け水; 雪解け期
e.g. the precipitation falls as snow and is released during the spring melt.
metal or other material in a melted condition.
溶解; 溶解物｟金属など｠
an amount melted at any one time.
(1回分の)溶解量
with modifier North American a sandwich, hamburger, or other dish containing or topped with melted cheese:
溶けたチーズをのせたサンドイッチ
e.g. a tuna melt.
PHRASES
melt in the mouth
(of food) be deliciously light or tender and need little or no chewing:
e.g. my shortbread melts in the mouth
e.g. as adjective : melt-in-your-mouth chicken livers.
PHRASAL VERBS
melt down
1. collapse or break down disastrously:
e.g. many expected him to melt down at the first sign of trouble.
2. (of a nuclear reactor) undergo a catastrophic failure as a result of the fuel overheating:
e.g. if the pumps that cool the reactor core become disabled the core could begin to overheat, and the reactor could melt down.
DERIVATIVES
meltable adjective
melter |ˈmeltər| noun
meltingly adverb
ORIGIN
Old English meltan, mieltan, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse melta ‘to malt, digest’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek meldein ‘to melt’, Latin mollis ‘soft’, also by malt.